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European Equity Strategy:03 May 07While we were thoroughly positive on European equities two months ago, the situation looks much less clear-cut today. For the short term we find many reasons why the market should move higher but at the same time, more and more signals suggest a more cautious stance. We see some upside potential until year-end and without a catalyst for the downside, we see markets gradually grinding higher in the short term, but the risk of another correction has risen. We expect volatility to have bottomed. We tilt our portfolio a tad more defensive. We reduce the overall active positions and, in particular, trim the strong O/w in Financials and Oil & Gas. Our key O/w positions are now Oil & Gas, Insurance, Banks, Technology and Health Care. Our key U/w positions are Utilities, Construction, Food & Beverage, Retail and Financial Services.

Advice on HF RecruitingI figured that I'd give back/pay it forward in one form or another after being in the industry for a while. Frankly, the most relevant thing I could think of was advice on people searching for new opportunities. My advice is more tailored towards fundamental investing hedge fund recruiting...

I work in event driven / arbitrage. Here are some career advice for youIt’s been a while since I’ve visited WSO. Yet in my early 20s, this was the place that I would often come to for information and guidance. In the spirit of giving back, I’ll share my story and a few nuggets of wisdom that I believe may help others who are also trying to strive in their...

Net debt: The definite listSince this topic comes up on WSO every now and then, I thought that it might help to collect everything in one list. The underlying definition is all "interest bearing liabilities". I will split it up into “positive items” and “negative items” which are subtracted.
For some I...

Anyone actually like their corporate development job? (Post -IB)I know most people exit to PE/HF (coming from my firm) and maybe 1-2 in each analyst class exit to corporate development. I myself also plan on exiting to PE but I've always been curious about corporate dev
I know the positive to corporate development is actually getting your life back...

AMA: 2.5 years @ MBB post PhDI appreciated the info I got from this forum when I was applying so figured I’d pay it forward.
**** Briefly about me:
* I am a PhD at an MBB in N Europe
* Joined ~2.5 years ago as entry level (think BA/A/AC)
* Now am an Associate/Consultant level
* I have worked through...